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Wunderkammern has become a significant gallery space for urban art, causing pilgrimages to the outskirts of Rome at every opening exhibition. The Genteel caught up with one of its directors, Giuseppe Pizzuto, ...

This week The Genteel has been speaking with Patrick Amsellem, director of Skissernas Museum - better known in English as The Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art in Lund, Sweden. Focusing on the ...

Throughout the years, there have been several cases of notable art pieces reappearing after years of investigation. The implications of these 'treasure hunt' discoveries and the important conversation ...

Through a collection of over 300 handbags, the Simone Handbag Museum in Seoul traces the trajectory of women's lives over the course of 500 years. Irene Kim reveals the stories of those who carried (or ...

"Viktor&Rolf Dolls" recently opened at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto as part of the city's Luminato Festival. Featuring 31 handmade porcelain dolls, every aspect of every doll is a replica of ...

Le Corbusier's use of the technological advances of industrialisation in rational, calculated ways made him one of the 20th century's most influential architects. A couple of New York exhibits and recently ...

As Alexander McQueen, Givenchy, Chanel and Dior dominated last week's Met Gala red carpet, the heavyweights of haute couture remind us that there is still a place for extravagant and theatrical fashion. ...

A new exhibit at New York's Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) pays homage to Chinese-American fashion designers who have refashioned the space that exists between East and West. Semmi W. visits the exhibit ...

The Design Museum Boston's latest project asked designers around the world to apply their creativity to the urban seating. The result is 19 innovative benches that are presently on display in the city's ...

Continuing to inspire artists and designers everywhere, the Swinging Sixties have never actually swung out of style. Traces of the era can be seen at the Textile Museum of Canada, as it pays tribute to ...

Life under occupation has significantly impacted artistic and cultural production both in Palestine and in its diaspora beyond. The exhibition "Mustafa Hallaj: Diasporic Meanings. A Retrospect" showing ...

Breaking a ten-year musical interlude, David Bowie quietly released his mournful ode to the city of Berlin on his 66th birthday last month. The new single precedes the imminent release of a new album and ...

Couture designers will go to great lengths to tell a story. On the runway, sky-high heels routinely help deliver whimsical plotlines - no matter how impractical they appear. Meanwhile, outrageous, experimental ...

Deal after deal, Rodarte has shown that specialising in couture and costume design is no reason to snuff collaborations with big retail chains. The label's recent Starbucks collaboration may have seemed ...

The team at SymbioticA, an artistic research centre at the University of Western Australia, has created a prototype of a "Victimless Leather" jacket from immortalised mouse and human cells. Cristina Fei ...

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